Sentences with phrase «doing little jobs»

From an early age, Asquith, who was born in Sussex but has spent most of his life in London, has been saving his money, starting with «hoarding cash and doing little jobs where I could» such as washing neighbourhood cars at age 12 to asking for money instead of presents at birthdays and Christmas.

To keep a German Shepherd occupied around the house you can get them to do little jobs that make them feel helpful, like putting their toys away in a bin or fetching the mail every day.

The dogs are, first and foremost, much loved house dogs and companion animals who can be found doing a little job in either the conformation or performance rings most weekends.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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It also does little to help the growing income gap or the overall economy, as people working several freelance jobs lack the purchasing power they may have had in more stable positions that disappeared during the recession, she said.

As immigration lawyer Evan Green asked the Globe and Mail, ``... how do you prove for someone with [little] work experience that there is no Canadian to do the job?»

This need to let go a little and let your people do their jobs isn't ever easy for anal - retentive entrepreneurs — which I guess may be oxymoronic.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

The only time I've had a job that did was when I had to do little work so that I had time on the side to either write, or start a business, or have fun, or spend time with friends.

«I'm here because I wasn't lucky and I didn't have someone to do this job,» he says, sounding a little put out that he has to spend time overlooking a snowy parking lot in Deerfield when he could be doing deals.

It's a little chaotic and contributes to sleep deprivation but we get the job done.

Media stories about how robots are taking jobs are plentiful, but little actual research has been done to measure how much it's happening or what the real effects are.

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

Imagine you're thinking of leaving your job to open a business and decide to do a little research into franchising.

This person has been doing the job too long with too little empathy and too little passion.

The current system is a boon for foreign job placement firms but does little to help promising startups looking for talent that's in short supply.

Offering severance does two things: First, it allows your employee to have a little bit of money to help them while they find a new job.

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

Everlane has introduced their Twill 5 - Pocket Pant to shake the chino market up a little bit, and they've done a good job.

We also do a good job on nutrition, health and wellness, but maybe there are some things we can do that are a little different.

Instead, she believes the government — along with advocacy groups — needs to do a better job helping consumers understand that most marketing claims, particularly those used on packaged, processed food, mean very little.

Pete and his wife Trudy do a nice job of blending into the WASP - y habitat (though perhaps they are a little too comfortable), but Pete's efforts to butter up Don and Roger are mostly fruitless, and he is dejected.

The Harper government leaves little doubt it thinks schools are doing a poor job preparing students for the real world.

This little piece of plastic did its job well when serving the beer cold, but when served warm, the beer exploded everywhere after the can was cracked open.

«Most leaders do too much,» Murnighan told Kellogg Insight, explaining that this leads to «under - utilized and under - challenged» team members who often switch jobs in frustration, as well as stressed - out managers with little time for big picture thinking.

All you need is a little hustle — and Facebook — to get the job done.

Sixteen people compete in silly weekly tasks that have little to do with the work of a business executive for the «dream job of a lifetime.»

She notes that many analysts feel overwhelmed because «they often were not really sure what their jobs were, and they felt that they had very little understanding of what other people in the organization do.»

On May 6, 2010, according to the authorities, it worked a little too well: Sarao did such a good job of driving down the price of the E-mini future that he caused a flash crash in which «investors saw nearly $ 1 trillion of value erased from U.S. stocks in just minutes.»

But the Pixel Buds surprised me a little: they had clear highs and did a better job with a bassline than earbuds in this style generally do.

In terms of my job, I've got a little bigger mandate than I did in that I'm responsible to build out the whole social marketing suite and where that's going, which is exciting.

Instead of trying to open a monolithic application, you're just going to open a little tiny slice of the application you need to get your job done.

Chair Yellen, with real growth over the recovery a little slower than we thought, output gaps and job market slack still on the scene, prices appearing to decelerate and wages / compensation revealing little in the way of threatening pressures, try as I might — and I repeat, I'm solidly in your camp — I don't see the rationale for tightening, even a little.

These critics say tariffs will raise prices and invite foreign countries» retaliation while doing little or nothing to bring back the glory days of bountiful middle - class manufacturing jobs.

Anyway the point is that if you are a banker and conceive of your job as «save the careers of corporate managers» rather than «do what is best for the corporation,» that's a little weird.

There's little they can do on the jobs front to counter the tens of thousands of departed energy and energy - related jobs, no matter how heavily ministers tout their grants to Alberta's microbrewers and their workforce of potential hundreds.

Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

I love, love, LOVE animals, so pet sitting was always a fun little job to do.

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They will do little to help former factory workers who have had to take lower - paying jobs — which is one reason that calling for new investments doesn't bring nearly the cheers on the campaign trail that denouncing Nafta does.

Now try to recall the thanks you received from your boss or colleagues for a job well done — a little employee appreciation.

Now, the market for initial public offerings is starting to heati up, but the law, the Jump - Start Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, has had little to do with it.

But when things become a little too complex or time - consuming, it's nice to know you can call in professionals who know how to get the job done efficiently and cost effectively.

The Fed has done a good job of guiding expectations toward a rate increase while generating little trauma in markets.

While conservation officers do a great job of environmental stewardship, they have little to no experience investigating the geotechnical complexities of large scale mining disasters or the actions of government's mines safety staff and procedures.

Job growth has been concentrated in positions that tend to fall into two categories: manual work that must be done in person, like styling hair or serving food, which usually pays relatively little; and more creative, design - oriented work like engineering or surgery, which often pays quite well.

Maybe business owners shouldn't name their own business when someone a little more objective and with more business experience could do a much better job.

Keeping interest rates near zero, as the Fed has done since 2008, will do little to fix the shortage of job applicants with skills businesses are seeking, or inspire indolent adult males to lead productive lives.

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That's interesting, I was going to use VGK & VPL to replicate the EAFE but I guess this new ETF will do the same job with a little less hassle.